June 21, 1856

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Features

Improvement in Cranes

Electro Chemical Baths

A Steamboat Burned

List of Patent Claims

Great Strike of Miners

Railway Law

Mental Condition of the Horse

The Sun --No.1

Restoring Fruit Trees Barked by Mice

Meat and Vegetables

How and Where Gold is Found

Real Spirit Gas

New Rotary Pump

Preventing Boiler Explosions

Self-Regulating Wind Mill

Softening Hard Water

Recent American Patents

Accidents from Lightning, and Volatile Fluid Explosions

Early Wheat

American Inventive Genius and Patent Laws

Notes on Patented Inventions--No. 10

American Life Boats and Military Wagons in Europe

The Prejudices of Tradesmen

Recent Foreign Inventions

To Take Ink Stains Out of Linen

Important Items

Curing Baldness

Improved Grain Separator

Effects of Cleanliness

The Use of the Eyes

Color of Paper for Reading and Writing

Convention Respecting Guano

Mechanics

Inventors, and Manufacturers

Steam Power Done For

What England is Worth

Departments

Letters

To Correspondents

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